Posts by Infernoz

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Oh dear, are they still this ridiculously hypocritical!

Most babies will have already have had intimate experience of a women's sex organs from being born, so it's a bit late after, and I assume that most women are smart enough to breast feed their babies too, which 'shock, horror' children may see in public... What about cleavage in low cut dresses and bikinis, are they going to try and censor these too?

This contradicts the whole point of sex education and the UK age of consent of 16; some children will already have some intimate knowledge of other sex children before 17, seen other sex Mammals or have done relevant Biology, so WTF!

I think the mockery of Japanese sex censorship in the current running anime "Shimoneta" is also timely mockery for the whole UK sex censorship farce too.

Re: The problem isn't IoT by itself

The main problem here is Honeywell were grossly incompetent in its implementation and negligent for connecting a security system to the cloud; it significantly increases the attack surface for no real benefit and I bet the video content was uploaded or stored insecurely, from the users point of view, which would opens another security fail which maybe much harder to fix!

It is uncalled for smearing Java Web Developers, Mr Arrogant who probably just thinks he knows security. The problem is, not-secure-by-default API and framework designs, and programmers who don't know how to do security properly, including correctly using security features in existing APIs. Web security, cryptography and data security are easy to get wrong, /in depth/, if you haven't had enough specialist security training or have dated knowledge; a web service may look secure but may still allow inappropriate data in and/or out which can allow deeper exploits e.g. for bounds, scripting, OS, database etc.

I won't buy any IoT kit until I see security taken seriously and a mature IoT ecosystem, with cloud use locked down tight so that the cloud provider only sees encrypted data which they can't decrypt or MitM attack!

Not only is this stupid, carbonation even looks harmful

I have not seen any overall evidence that AGW is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, so this looks just a possibly more expensive way to source CO2, of dubious quality, for the consumer fad for carbonated drinks.

I've seen suggestions that consuming /any/ carbonated drink can be harmful to health, especially if drunk during a meal, because it can interfere with the digestion of food molecules including by stomach acid, digestive enzymes and gut flora, thus cause malnutrition, allergies, fat gain, inflammation and disease. Most carbonated soft drinks also contain unhealthy amounts of sugar(s), toxic artificial sweeteners and other harmful chemicals, which are more reasons to avoid them.

Beware, too many food and drink companies care more about profits than your health, and have been proven to use bad science, even deliberate misinterpretation of science, and other deceptions, to back harmful products (e.g. Cereal grain products, low fat foods, most vegetable oils, sugars etc.); many governments have also been compromised, and /still/ give bad dietary advice despite all the recent science!

Re: On the spot fines, trial run on trains!

I think you will find that most of those "mp3 players" are mobile phones and many of those can play proper quality flac files now...

If people play audio on device speakers or on cheap and nasty, leaking, open earphone/phones, with no regard for people around them, then they are just being anti-social, rude morons causing a "public disturbance". Quite frankly there should be retail product rules that forbid the selling of portable headphones or earphones which noticeable leak audio, and that includes headphones or earphones bundled with equipment like phones, tablets etc.!

What an impractical monstrosity

My flat commuter bicycle handlebar has only practical hardware on it including an Exposure front light mount and a Garmin GPS/speed device, both of which need to be near the centre of the bar, so no room for this monstrosity, especially not in front of the handlebars because it'll get in the way of most front lights and probably be swamped with light by them!

The static and rippling LEDs may be too distracting and make an accident more likely, especially at night with no obvious allowance for an unobstructed front light; no I don't rate under handlebar front lights because these can be obstructed by gear and brake cables. This might be more practical if the display was split in two so that it does not hog valuable space close to the centre of a handlebar, and maybe included indicator lights for other road users to see too.

I've seen other Kickstarter bicycle stuff appear too but quickly dismiss most of it as impractical or bad design, even if some may initially look interesting.

* Females have different conception and sex chromosomes, and different hormone ratios, which makes them noticeably physically, psychologically and behaviourally different from males, even as new born babies!

* Females mostly only do stuff they like less when it helps them to better survive, breed and raise children e.g. in developing countries.

* In counties like Norway where there is enough wealth and freedom available, females gradually migrate away from doing stuff they like less to stuff they like more, even with radical feminist attempts to stop or reverse this, the same with men; so typically a greater proportion of men are in S.T.E.M. based jobs and a greater proportion of women are in people based jobs.

* provide a trickle charged Li-ion (no NiCd or NiMH!) powered fibre, wired phone facility, for when a mobile phone is not available or usable.

* provide a decent, full speed, secure FTTH modem/router (e.g. a Draytek one), which can handle decent connection traffic without crashing or crawling; so not the pathetic Chinese rubbish they provided for FTTC VDSL.

* have built-in connection quality heartbeat and error signalling in the street fiber cabinets and fibre phone facility, so that BT promptly know when a FTTH cabinet, home port or home connection dies, is faulty or is suspect, so that I more rarely ever have to talk to Indian support drones or have to take time off for useless home visits by BT engineers.

* provide a trickle charged Li-ion (no NiCd or NiMH!) powered fibre, wired phone facility, for when a mobile phone is not available or usable.

* provide a decent full speed FTTH modem/router (e.g. a Draytek one), which can handle decent connection traffic, so that I don't need to replace pathetic Chinese rubbish like for FTTC VDSL with my own bought hardware.

* have built-in connection quality heartbeat and error signalling in the street fiber cabinets and fibre phone facility, so that BT promptly know when a FTTH cabinet, home port or home connection dies, is faulty or is suspect, so that I more rarely ever have to talk to Indian support drones or have to take time off for pointless home visits by BT engineers.

Re: That's what they want you to think?

Why are you so brain-dead as to suggest sanctions on China when the corpocracy which took over the US government and others shipped most of the goods manufacturing and jobs to China, so that the US is now a parasitic dependant of China!

So where will all your goods come from then, stupid? Is it sinking in now just how stuffed the US is?

The US government has been corrupted so badly and been fed so much over-priced shoddy junk (for massive corporate profits, mainly for the 0.1%) that it can't even do effective data security for what is arguably it's Achilles Heal, the living people who work for this zombie fiction!

Got a Tab S 10.5 myself, and it really does humiliate the overpriced crapple slab e.g. near 4K OLED display, support for OTG wired Ethernet, ANT+, support for 128GB micro SD cards, stylish Titanium Bronze case choice and Logitech deemed it worthy to make a nice Bluetooth keyboard case for it too. It is a joy to read books, magazines, 2 facing pages of reference books on and watch video on too.

Bill Gate is a corporate vampire deserving no respect

I forget to mention that I see Bill Gates as a sack of excrement for expecting workers to work extra hours for him to more value a business and for his numerous other documented offensive ideas and actions. Corporatism is always wrong, and most corporate executive pay is plain insane and completely unjustified.

I don't care how much of their trust fund an obscenely rich executive donates, they should not have so much that they need to fake-guiltily buy 'popularity', and the funds can end up spent on things which turn out to be bad, which due diligence would have revealed, if they even care.

Re: US management - confusing hours worked for productivity

There is a rather nasty effect called "Diminishing Returns" which not only means that you become less productive as you get tired, but can easily flip to negative productivity with avoidable mistakes which you then have to spend extra time fixing later (if you notice them in-time and can figure out a fix) *, get stressed (can harm health), and reduce your creativity because you are working so hard that you body and brain don't have enough down time to digest problems and devise solutions. This only gets worse as you get older!

* If you don't notice tiredness caused mistakes, the cost to fix them can quickly escalate, especially if built into a product; this a well know gotcha in software development and engineering.

Caffeine should be used in moderation too, because it is quite a crude stimulant which will bite you when abused.

There is also something called a work life balance where you should recognise that you work enough to finance your life, not live to work, the later is pointless and will harm you even if you like your work.

You are running a *nix OS which often has a fraction of the product found on windows, which are heavy mouse enabled, unlike some retarded *nix apps, and even on a *nix OS a mouse can be much faster for some tasks where a GUI is available.

Just use a Bluetooth mouse

Logitech do some much nicer ones and don't forget keyboards too, some in tablet covers for iOS and Android. Even good touch screen keyboards are much slower to use than proper keyboards if you need to type much.

My Thunderbird is configured to refuse this, and I'm not downgrading it's security; sham on Oracle who damned well ought to know better, including for several internal oraclecorp sites with other obvious security issues!

Easy to break or block.

Cables, cable floor covers, raised door edges, misplaced chairs and furniture, too small gaps, people etc. will easily defeat passage of this mobile "Peripheral" and may cause it to fall and /shatter/. It could be deliberately blocked by carefully installed obstacles, including fishing line. WiFi bandwidth and quality could be an issue too.

If you want to interact visually: visit, use video conferencing, or use other communications tech.

And one of the most idioticaly insecure ideas is IoT, without an strong emphasis on security

Too many IoT devices have really quite pathetic security including stupid system design, that includes many routers! This is quite blatantly because of rushed bad management, which I've see the consequence of in commercial product I've had to spend ages iteratively rebuilding securely!

I look and throw my hands up in horror at how stupid and sloppy the IoT system designs are, so no NEST, or various other proprietary controller appliances for me! WTF is the Nest remote mains powered for? It should be a low power, battery powered, wireless (not WiFi) mesh terminal for smarts in a /wired LAN/ central switch box!

All IoT should only talk via an easily upgradeable hardened gateway server device, not directly with a remote internet server, otherwise it will eventually become an open insecurity puss filled sore!

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WTF is any pen doing without a solid cover, even in a soft case, in a bag with valuable items.

An protected pen tip is an accident waiting to happen for the pen tip, any soft case it is in and anything else it can touch, so just deserts for his stupidity; an Aluminium Beer can in a bag with valuable items, an event worse idea!

Re: He's right.

I also like the much greater choice and lower cost of Ground Coffees, so no nasty Feminising Plasticisers leaching from the Plastic (not just BPA), and I get to use more more coffee powder in a larger metal filter so that I can fill a whole mug using an Expresso machine.

Re: This is just stupid

My new Bosch one (from John Lewis) saves a lot of water and power, has load of programmes (including /fast/ ones), lots of options, is piss easy to operate, quiet, tells you how long a programme will take before you start it, how long it has left to go and beeps when done; all for about £100 less that the LG one, let alone the other rip-offs listed!

The thing which really needs IoT is central heating and cooking kit, but with proper security and a physical heating on/off flip switch.

Most central heating controllers are still stuck in the pathetically archaic single zone model, including most commercial IoT ones, including Nest; mechanical radiator thermostat valves only partly improve on this and need a wasteful fixed bleed radiator to bleed pressure until the central heating water pump stops! We should already be able to easily buy affordable prioritised /each/ room-zoned variable temperature programming using automated radiator valves and radiator water flow sensors, with a smart central WiFi and BlueTooth 4 controller designed to dynamically and safely use any appropriate radiator(s) as a full pressure bleed until the central heating water pump stops.

Re: All your pizzas are ours

Indeed, scenarios like this /will/ happen if the security is not properly sorted out /now/, including pre-planned support for later firmware/hardware updates for improving security. This is why I'm loath to buy much IoT kit currently, especially anything which needs a dedicated internet server to be usable.

My internet enabled weather station is my only IoT device and locked down by my router firewall from accessing anything but a single weather site on the internet.

Possible exploits for IoT devices may include:

* a central heating system which chills or cooks you, or deliberately wastes energy while you are out.

* a washing machine which is programmed to badly wash or dry your clothes, even ruin them.

* a tumble dryer which is programmed to waste energy, ruin your clothes, cause other damage or a fire.

* a cooking appliance which is programmed to ruin food, waste energy, cause other damage or a fire.

* an internal sensor(s) used or appliance programmes used to detect when the best time is to steal stuff from you or just spy on you for other nefarious reasons.

* an electronic lock(s) which is hacked to let thieves or other nefarious people inside.

* an appliance becomes unusable because your appliance wireless, IoT hub, router or broadband is broken, or had a hacked firmware update..

I'd need a seriously good reason to allow any device which uses UPnP or manually open internet ports, because that could easily become a massive security risk!

Re: Excuse me

"They just have to hold on to the $/TB crown to survive." is not the only thing which is for spinning magnetic disk, and cost difference is quite significant still; they don't have a write life limit and there is still the possibility that a failed drive can have data recovered off it, unlike a failed flash drive! This is why I have all my flash disks as RAID1 and not larger than 256GB per disk.

Frack Bicycle Hub Gears and any gear change at the hub, always a really stupid idea!

A hub gear in a bicycle wheel will always be a pain in the butt because it will make the wheel a pain to take off to fix punctures, change tires or even swap wheels for winter/ice tires, and worse they make it much more expensive when the Rim needs replacing, because the hub has to re-spoked rather than replaced with a commodity whole wheel!

Put all the damned (sealed) gear changing in the frame already, as all 21st century bicycles should have by now!

Still waiting with a Derailer bicycle, which is also a pain, but at least affordable for wheels...

Maybe this have something to do with the negligently ///bendable/// case.

It is frankly idiotic carrying a mobile in a trouser pocket, for several health reasons, and the likely risk that a too mechanically deformed Lithium battery will short circuit and guarantee serious burns for many seconds because you can't remove a burning phone and can't cool it, so have to somehow eventually shed the trousers, as this man discovered the hard way!

What utter, scummy, con artist, rip-off nonsense

Cat-6 Ethernet cables use twisted pair cable with balanced drivers and receivers specifically to drastically reduce noise and attenuation, so the wasted use of extra specially treated Silver is utterly pointless. TCP is designed to tolerate delays and data corruption using packet windowing (buffering) and acks, of which most will occur in equipment and possibly outside the premises!

I could buy proper, very high quality Cat-6 cables within a single figure percentage of that price and buy several Kg of Investment Grade Pure Silver for that much currency!

If this wasn't a farce before, it is now

The degree of predicted Climate change is frankly dubious, and even if it does happen, it is not anything like as harmful as nuclear weapon strikes and can be adapted to using some ideas suggested in the book "Abundance" and other sources.

I think that it very unlikely that anyone would be so stupid as to use nuclear weapons now, given all the observed effects of Chernoble and Fukashima; fallout can travel huge distances and will likely fall on the attackers home too!

In my opinion these scientists are calling false Wolf, so are no worth paying any more attention to.

How futile given encrypted network tunnel services exist

All anyone has to do if they try censorship of anything (including consenting adult material which prudes block) is to use an HTTPS web proxy or VPN provider; some services are even bundled with applications, so dead easy for less technically literate people.

Can this Polically Correct BS already!

WTF is all this moaning and fake guilt for, just stop it already and concentrate on important stuff like maybe stuff which really makes peoples lives better, like abundance incubation, how to be less stupid, be more creative, and generally have a better quality of life.

Humans (not fake victims) choose stuff for themselves quite often, and if the "do gooder" PC brigade don't like that, well they should STFU, grasp that they are wrong, stop with the incompetent and wasteful meddling and look at doing something useful!

What we should be looking to fix is all the greedy and incompetent interference, tricky and corruption in the human social and business arenas by stagnant governments, N.G.O.s, fake Charities and big corporations, not all this utterly boring Frankfurt School 'victim' deception.

Just how hard is a progress bar?....

There have been a lot of studies and presentations by private and state groups which have not been published in the mainstream media, where it is the microwave pulses which damage cells, not heating, including cancer by where a mobile was held for long periods. The effects near mobile masts have literally felt shocking for some, especially for mobile masts placed close to residential rooms on top of buildings.

I keep my mobile phone several cm away from my body in a back pack or on a table and always use a Bluetooth headphone with microphone for calls, but mostly have it in aircraft mode, to limit exposure.

All expensive for what they are

I've had an old Dyson hand held for years which is much more convenient than a mains ones, but even with Li-ion batteries and high speed DC pulse motors I am disappointed just how expensive and short battery life these devices still are. I like the idea of more suction power with the newer DC58 and DC59, but £220 and £300 is tacking the piss! The price is actually rising for these devices, WTF!

I don't buy the excuse that making high speed DC motors is so hard and expensive, it's just rotating parts engineering, SMTP like electronics, and adaptive software to adapt the stepping spindle motor technology used in Hard Disks.

Dyson are flat out wrong on short battery life being OK; they need to provide the facility to charge extra batteries away from the vacuum, and price the batteries and cradle reasonably.

Anyone using a single drive NAS i.e. without RAID1, 5 or better is franky naive

You get what you pay for, or a little less it you build it yourself, and that device is too cheap junk, as the Amazon reviews document.

Drives fail when you least expect it and often without a recent enough backup, and you will be in misery if the head crashed, because that £500 recovery service (if you can afford it) can just say sorry... been there!

I looked at decent off-the-shelf NAS, choked at the prices with/without drives and know that RAID 1, 5, 6 are flawed because they only cover drive data corruption.

I build my own FreeNAS boxes with quality commodity PC motherboards, quality PSUs and huge WD Red as RAIDZ2; I have had one out of six new drives fail (free warranty replacement via Scan), quickly spotted as fading and failed by ZFS and Smart for each box I built, with no risk of data loss; RAID1, 5 and 6 only detect a failure late, with the risk of data corruption until a new drive is added and rebuilt.

I use small size drive RAID 1 in desktops and it has saved me several times from data loss which periodic backup can't do; I'd use ZFS there too if I could find standard OS boot support by the OSs I like using.

Glass, hmm..

Most buildings will have a lot of surfaces which are not glass or even clean smooth glass and the surfaces may not be able to take that much load! If I expected a visit like that, I'd add something to make the surfaces slippery or rough.